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  • 2007
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, new film on 21st century suburbanites. (Odeon Films)

Directed By: Jim Brown, Gary Burns

Written By: Gary Burns, Jim Brown

  • 2007
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Radiant City

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Summary Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, new film on 21st century suburbanites. (Odeon Films)

Directed By: Jim Brown, Gary Burns

Written By: Gary Burns, Jim Brown

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
60
83% Positive
5 Reviews
0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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75
Jim Brown and Gary Burns hang a powerful antisuburban diatribe in the form of statistics, expert opinions and pictures worth a thousand words on the experiences of the Moss family.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
75
As a one-time suburbanite now living happily in Manhattan, I can attest that Radiant City tells it like it is. The film ends with a surprise that you won't see coming and I won't spoil.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
The cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin's eerie, sometimes monumental images italicize the experts' statements, making the suburbs seem like an asphalt-and-Sheetrock dreamscape where democracy goes to die.
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70
Enlightening and disturbingly funny.
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70
In the end, helmers have some nifty tricks up their verite sleeves.
By Ken Eisner FULL REVIEW
33
The faux-documentary aspect of Radiant City is a huge gamble that doesn't pay off. If anything, the movie's observations about the corrupting social influence of cluttered mall spaces get undercut by the fact that Burns and Brown feel the need to INVENT characters to prove their truth.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Burns Film Ltd., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Canadian Television Fund, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Rogers Telefund, Sprawl Alberta, The Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Release Date May 30, 2007
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website http://www.radiantcitymovie.com/
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Awards

Genie Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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